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Saamy48
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March 26, 2018
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Really helpful to understand some failures in the USSR
I highly recommend to borrow and read this book!
It was written by a scientist - Murray Feshbach is a demographer specialized in Eastern European Studies - and a journalist specialized on health and environmental issues - Alfred Friendly Jr.
The authors show credibly the extent to which many problems proceeded during the USSR. The facts are presented in an unemotional way and not from the viewpoint of free market dogmatists. If one compares the insight presented in the book to the fundamental, good concepts of the market economy, it becomes even more obvious that the management system named soviet socialism itself was a source of many problems, not of solutions. The main failure being not to produce any profits to maintain, modernize and advance the industry and instead doing everything on state command. The big warning is: Never try to plan and regulate things that cannot be planned.